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Pages 273 - 312. Features: Lovely colour ad for the De Havilland Comet used by British Overseas Airways Corporation shows plane in flight; Photos of avalanche terror in the Alps - engulfed villages; Great two-page photo of the start of the famous Tasman Ocean Yacht Race; Wow - two illustrated pages describe the Alberta tar sands "containing four times the rest of the world's known oil reserves"; Photos of personalities of the week, including Spain's first ambassador to Britain since 1946, Don Miguel Primo de Rivera, and his wife; Two pages of photos of the marriage of the Shah of Iran (Persia) to his new Empress, formerly Miss Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari; Photo-illustrated article on the Life of John Maynard Keynes; The Gold Coast's first steps in democracy - election photos; Two pages of photos of U.N. troops in winter war action in central Korea; Centerfold photo of incredible devastation caused by the Mount Lamington eruption; Mice demonstrate road safety in Glasgow!; Photo of huge B 36 Bomber; Restoration of St. George's Hall, King's Lynn - believed to be England's largest medieval guildhall; photos of new French and British weapons; Photos illustrated how bulky files of newspapers are transfered to tiny rolls of microfilm; Amazing photos of lying squirrels in flight; Swedish ballets; Nice colour ad for Imperial Leather toilet powder inside back cover; Nice colour ad for Jacob & Co's Cream Crackers on back cover; and more. Cover holding by one staple. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
98 pages. Short Stories: The Huntress; The Nightingales in Central Park; The Man Who Couldn't Kill; Caterwauling Company. Articles: Theives I Have Known - department store plainclotheswoman tells of her violent encounters with amateur and professional shoplifters; Adventures of the Mind - The Elusive Neutron; Great two-page color photo of Albany's Delmar Men's Orchestra rehearsing; Our Year of Escape - Ira and Patricia Spring and their kids fulfill their goal of spending a year in the Alps; England's Confusion on the Left - is the British Labour Party devouring itself in a Communist-backed 'civil war'?; Battles Under the Basket - photo-illustrated article on the pro basketball players who fight for rebounds - with photos of Gene Conley, Jack Twyman, Hub Reed, Si Green, Darrall Imhoff, Elgin Baylor, Jim Krebs, Alex Ellis, Bob Pettit, Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell and Kenny Sears; Frank Lloyd Wright - Definant Genius - The Years of Glory (conclusion) - photo-illustrated article; A Road Out of the Slums - New York City's bold attempt to provide culture for under-privileged children. Serials: Captives of the Storm (part 1 of 2); The Case of the Curious Spinster ( part 2 of 7). Ads: Fig Newton cookies (color photo ad inside front cover); Salem cigarettes - couple in wooded area; Puss'n Boots cat food; GTE answering machine; Two-page color ad for the Pontiac Safari Station Wagon (1961 Bonneville); Hammond Organs; Larson boats; Zenith stereos; Old Crow Bourbon; Lucky Strike cigarettes - photo of couple in meadow grass; Nice ad for the Oldsmobile Starfire features a red convertible; Dial soap; Nice color-photo one-page ad for Del E. Webb's Sun City development in Arizona; Centerfold ad for Philco home appliances includes photo of satellite; Florida tourism; Heinz Ketchup ad features sepia-toned photo of 1960 Masters and U.S. Open Champion Arnold Palmer; Two-page Caterpillar photo ad features a new nine-mile stretch of freeway at Pueblo Colorado and features photos of Jay Martin, George Fellows, Howard Butler, J. Marlowe Jensen, and Earl Beardsley; Color-photo Pitney-Bowes postage meter features shapely lady resembling Brigitte Bardot; Telephone Company ad features Parris Island recruits phoning home on Saturday night; De Beers ad features illustration of floral lady; Color ad for the renault Dauphone (red); Back cover ad for L&M cigarette's sweepstakes. Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
144 pages. Features: June Callwood; George Woodcock; Paul Rush; Peter Kaellgren of the ROM; David Lasker on the pipe organ; David Wilkinson sends postcards from the Alps; Heritage Canada and 26,000 Canadians are bringing new life to small towns; The penthouse of John C. Parkin, Canada's foremost modernist architect; Toller Cranston's home is a flamboyant fantasy; Media mogul David Mintz's private screening room; The Collections of Murray Mackay, Canadian representative for Christies; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding sound. A quality copy of this wonderful issue. Magazine
32 pages. Photos of Princess Elizabeth as the years have passed; Colour Aunt Jemima pancake ad; Driving sheep through the snow-capped Alps - great photos; Linda Smith - 4-year-old rodeo expert; New Zealand's Harald Isaachsen and his back-to-nature family; Photos of Japanese Yabusame - when archers shoot on horseback; Photos of Rabies vaccine manufacture; Many other interesting photos from around the world. Somewhat above-average external wear. Bit of writing atop front cover. Book
Features: Diamond Cut Diamond - widespread traffic in diamonds stolen from African mines; A Packet of Trouble - A British soldier in Egypt pretends to help drug-traffickers; Across the High Alps on Skis - an ambitious expedition carried out by four young Scots, many photos; Gypsies of the Arctic - Laplanders; South African Canoe-Racing - Whisky and Water - two odd characters in Australia; Rope's End - a former B.S.A. police-trooper's account of the undoing of a cunning native murderer; Curio-Collecting in Papua - examining native handiwork for the Australian Museum, with photos; Cheating Death; The Sleep-Maker - Puzzling thefts at a Nigerian mining-camp; The Awakening - an innocent man is charged with murder; Poltergeist - a weird story from Borneo; and more. Average wear. Binding sound. Book
Features: New knowledge on the rise of man - the Oriental Institute is a great research laboratory for the investigation of the early career of civilized man; Editorials - air transport - "seed" - a weapon for peace; Ultr-violet light and forgery - by making use of fluorescence, professional investigators detect forgeries in documents; Avalances and avalanche protection - in the Alps, great structures are necessary to divert avalanches; Things that happen in sunspots - An astronomer's photograph of the spectrum of a sunspot may give him material for many months of study and analysis; America emerges from partial maritime eclipse - completion of the first of two great liners for the north Atlantic route gives a promise of a revived great merchant marine; Flying in the beginning - from man-carrying kites, the army experimenters turned to gliders; In a rifle factory - over 2500 operations are required to produce accurate rifles that stand the test of use; Factory punishment for tires; Physical laboratories of the stars - the atoms in the stars have been braodcasting a description of their surroundings for millions of years; Profiting by enforced leisure - children, unemployed persons, hospital patients, and even jail inmates are increasing their demand for helpful books; Hoover Dam - conclusion - materials, supplies, manpower, and future program; The liner that cannot roll - new italian line ship has world's largest gyro-stabilizer plant; A post office for freight - New Union freight terminal in New York is first step in solution of freight handling and distribution problem; Houses of the future - they may be made in factories to individual design; Salmon fishing - great industry brings millions of dollars yearly to the pacific coast - how the salmon are caught and canned. Prior owner's pencilled name mostly erased from top of front cover. Book
Edition, en 1700, du corpus statutaire édité en latin par Romain Philieul en 1511 et traduit en français pas son fils en 1558. L'abbé Gualterio est l'ami de Saint-Simon, avec lequel on lui connaît une correspondance. Particularités concernant les Juifs habitant le Comtat : p. 99, 114, 131, 223. Les statuts réglementent également l'usage de la torture.
In-12, broché, couverture papier gris de l'époque, iv, 83, (1) p., planche gravée hors texte. Edition originale. Originaire du Dauphiné, magistrat, défenseur des Lumières "en toutes matières" et un moment proche de Rousseau, Servan se prononce sur l'"état de Société". "Les moeurs sont le vrai fondement de la prospérité des Empires (...). Eloge de l'agriculture, premier des arts et critique du luxe (...). Ce qui forme un État, ce sont les hommes et le terrain (...). Servan conseille d'employer les soldats aux travaux publics" (INED, n° 4169). Bien complet de la belle planche gravée par Eisen de la mort qui fauche 'la sage vieillesse jouant avec l'aimable enfance & conduite doucement vers le trépas'. (Rochas, 'Biographie du Dauphiné, II, 407, n°V). Bon exemplaire.
Le N? : 5 EUR, l'ann?e : 17 EUR, l'ensemble :
1 grande carte au 1/100.000 format 126 x 95,5 cm et synthèse au format in-4 sous reliure spirale, août 1973, 6 pp. Bel exemplaire dont la synthèse est richement annotée, et dont la carte fait également l'objet de petites précisions. Français
PARIS, Librairie Encyclopédique Roret, 1854 - In12 -1/2 Reliure - Dos lise orné- 340 pages - Complet dces 10 grandes planches dépliantes - .bon exemplaire
A livre d'artiste illustrated with 22 ORIGINAL ETCHINGS BY J.A. CARLOTTI. From a total edition of 860 numbered copies, this is ONE OF ONLY 100 NUMBERED COPIES PRINTED ON FINE TINTED MOULDMADE WOVE PAPER. This copy, exceptionally, has a SECOND SUITE OF THE 22 ETCHINGS, WITH REMARQUE, PRINTED IN FOREST GREEN (the justification mentions no suites of etchings, for any copies, printed in this color). 4to. Loose as issued in original wraps. FINE AND BRIGHT, with the extra suite of etchings in a separate envelope.
8vo., Second Edition, with a mounted chromolithographed frontispiece, engraved title-vignette, 7 fine mounted chromolithographed plates (all original tissue guards save one present), 24 woodcut illustrations in the text, and 9 folding engraved and coloured maps (one of two short tears in folds), neat contemporary signature on blank preliminary recto; attractively bound in late nineteenth century half calf BY SMART OF GLOUCESTER, marbled boards, back with five raised bands tooled in gilt, second compartment ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments ruled in blind, red sprinkled edges, marbled endpapers, upper hinge tender else a very good, bright, clean copy. With the engraved binder's ticket on front paste-down. Published in the same year as the first edition. This edition has a new title-vignette and an extra woodcut illustration. This work is effectively the forerunner of the Alpine Club Journal. 'Commonly regarded as the cornerstone of any mountaineering collection' (Neate). An appendix lists all Alpine peaks above 12,000ft. Neate 18.
- Maison, Paris 1843, 13,5x21,5cm, relié. - Edition originale. Reliure en demi basane noisette, dos lisse comportant de petites traces de frottements orné de filets à froid, plats de papier marbré, gardes et contreplats de papier à la cuve, reliure de l'époque. Ouvrage illustré de 7 lithographieset bien complet de sa planche "Chant populaire du mois de Mai". Une tache d'encre marginale en tête de la page 119, quelques petites rousseurs. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]
Avec sept cartes, quatre Plans de Ville et deux grandes vues de la chaîne du Mont-Blanc et des Alpes bernoises, 1 vol. petit in-8 reliure éditeur pleine percaline bleue, L. Maison, Editeur des Guides-Richard, Paris, 1853, xci-664 pp. Bon exemplaire, bien complet des 7 cartes en couleurs et des panoramas dépliants, dans son cartonnage d'origine d'une fraîcheur peu commune. Il s'agit de la seconde édition, sans mention d'édition, l'édition originale datant de 1841. Français
Paris Victor Lecou, 1854-1855 ; 2 volumes in-4, demi-chagrin brun, plat de percaline, dos à nerfs ornés de caissons dorés, 3 tranches dorées, 457 et 451 pages. 54 et 48 compositions hors-texte, très nombreuses gravures in texte, vignette de titre. Le second volume est en premier tirage 1854. Bel ex.
8vo., Second Edition, with portrait frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, plates in photogravure and illustrations in the text, neat contemporary inscription on title, free endpapers lightly browned; original oatmeal buckram, backstrip with leather labels (chipped at edges) framed and lettered in gilt, gilt top, uncut, corners lightly bruised else a very good, bright, clean copy. Mummery's classic account was first published in 1895. In this, arguably the best, edition the frontispiece of Aiguille Verte is replaced by the author's portrait. Neate *555.
8vo., First Edition, with several plates, free endpapers lightly browned; original green cloth, boards framed in blind, upper board lettered in gilt, green top, green marbled endpapers, a remarkably bright, clean, crisp copy. The Britannia Hut is the only mountain club hut in the Alps built entirely from funds raised by British climbers. Clinton Dent (1850-1912) was the first President of the Association. RARE. Neate 33.
Digne, Repos, 1848. In-8 relié demi chagrin vert (reliure moderne), dos à nerfs orné de fleurons, XII-608 pp.-1 carte dépliante (lithographie d’une vue de Manosque prise du Mont d’or). Exemplaire non rogné, salissures sur la page de faux-titre et la dernière page, très bon état pour le reste.
- Francisque Martin-Bottier, Bourg-en-Bresse 1864, relié. - Edition originale, signée par l'éditeur en regard de la page de titre. Reliure de l'époque en demi chagrin marron, dos à quatre nerfs orné de fleurons, caissons et filets dorés, caissons à froid, plats de papier à la cuve, gardes et contreplats de papier caillouté, toutes tranches mouchetées. Quelques frottements en tête et en queue ainsi que quelques éraflures sur le dos qui présente également quelques mouillures. Quelques rousseurs en début et fin de volume, sinon bon exemplaire. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]
Illustrée de nombreuses autotypies découpées et intercalées dans le texte, 1 vik. in-8 cartonnage souple éditeur demi-percaline bordeaux, Alexandre Gratier & Cie, Grenoble, 1900, 121 pp. et 1 f. n. ch. Bon exemplaire de l'édition originale. Peu commun. Français
17 vues format 17,6 x 8,8 cm, tirage albuminés, Aug. Couttet, Chamonix (Haute-Savoie) s.d. (circa 1885) Numéros 25 : le sommet du Mont Blanc - 26 : Le sommet du Mont Blanc - 27 : Mont Blanc vu du Belvédère - 28 : Arrêt d'une caravane, route du Mont Blanc - 29 : Passage d'une échelle (route du Mont Blanc) - 30 : Passage d'une crevasse, route du Mont Blanc - 31 : Sérac au Grand Plateau ; 32 : Vallée de Chamonix vue à la jonction - 33 : Entrée du glacier, route du Mont Blanc - 34 : Glaciers des Bossons et Séracs - 35 : Traversée et grotte au Glacier des Bossons - 36 : Entrée de la Grotte aux Bossons - 37 : Traversée au glacier des Bossons - 38 : En route pour les Bossons - 41 : Traversée de la mer de glace - 42 : Aiguille du Chardonnet et d'Argentières vues de la Flégère - 43 : Mont Blanc vu de la Flégère Bon état pour ces belles photographies stéréo du Mont Blanc (et de la mer de Glace) et du glacier des Bossons ; les indications de localisation sont manuscrites (et naturellement d'époque.) Prix du lot, non séparable. Français
15 burins originaux par Michel Béret, un des XV exemplaires numérotés réservés aux Collaborateurs, 1 vol. in-12 format à l'italienne en feuillets sous couv. rempliée illustrée, sous double emboîtage illustré, Michel Béret, Georges Leblanc, Imp., 1956 Bel envoi de Michel Béret. Magnifique petit ouvrage remarquablement illustré par Michel Béret. Ces 15 burins nous présentent des vues du Vercors, de La Table du Roi, Vienne, Saint-Antoine, Valence, Romans, le Mont-Aiguille, La Meije, Vizille, Briançon, Saint-Véran, Château-Queyras, la Grande Chartreuse et Grenoble. Rare. Français
Pages 177-272, plus 16 pages of great ads. Features: The Blue Bandits - Part 1 - Elusive thieves operate in the Franco-Italian villages on either side of the frontier in the French department of the Hautes Alpes and the Italian district of Monte Viso; How I Lost My Christmas Dinner - hilarious story of a Christmas spent with the Maori adherents of self-styled "prophet" Rua - article with photos; On Foot Through South America - Part 2 - photo-illustrated account of Harry A. Franck's visit to Quito and his tramp through Ecuador; The Last Voyage of H.M.S. "Drake" - a vivid glimpse of the perils of convoy work and the "price of Admiralty"; ; The Trials of a Naturalist's Wife - Part 1; My Two Years' Captivity Among the Turks - Part 1of Airman Capt. T.W.White's adventures and daring escape; The Moonshiners - what happened when the author stumbled into a camp of Tennessee moonshiners; Photo of thousands of snakes at breeding time in the Klamath Falls, Oregon area; The Wonderland of the Arctic - description of a trip to Danish Greenland, with photos; In Quest of Cannibals - Part 3 - exploration and adventure in unknown New Guinea; Photo of German "Death Clock" constructed primarily of skulls and other bones; Two Balloonatics - an exciting balloon adventure from just before the war (WWI); Treasure Island - great photo-illustrated article about the remote South Pacific island of Nauru; The Mad Millionaire - how vast wealth came unexpectedly to a poor Mexican Indian, and the tragedy that ensued; The Sacred Mountain - photo-illustrated account of a picturesque Tibetan pilgrimage; The Resurrection of "Red" Wilson - an exciting story of the old days in the south-west, when the Apaches were still a terror in the land; Photo of a lakatoi (lakatois) New Guinea boat. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
